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Randy..."Globee 4L plugs"..saw a batch of these sitting next to the water...Are they a plug one could use in the older Enya or S Tigre engines....I thought they used to be a racing plug and don't know if that necessarily means a hotter plug..or just a stronger element..Anyway..thought I would ask..Thanks in advance...
Randy , hello from a British ex-pat in the Charente region of France.Agree with all the other comments ....Really great article and priceless for us returnees to the sport.May I just ask you to clear up an arguement between myself and colleages over on this side of the pond.In your article you say it's fine to run the venerable Fox 35 on a 26%/28% mix of synthetic and castor.My pals have told me: ONLY USE ALL CASTOR fuel.Can I have your guidance on this ' sticky' issue please ?Very much obliged ,Robin.p.s.Are the Evolution 36's in stock yet please ?
_____________________________________________________________ Plugs? Castor? Synthetic? Percentage?_____________________________________________________________A lot of times the plug problems show up as rich inside maneuvers and leaner outsides; this happens because gravity and centrifugal force ,forces the oil-fuel charge down on the element on insides, thus cooling the coil and pulls it away on the outside maneuvers, letting it naturally go leaner. I have seen this problem instantly cured by simply changing plugs. Please do not be afraid to put in a new glo plug , or try different types of plugs .
I don't understand. I would think the oil-fuel charge would get forced onto the plug element during the outsides maneuvers ??
HiWith a typical inverted engine setup used on most stuntships ,gravity and centrifical force pulls the fuel onto the glo plug element while performing insides, it pulls it away on outside manouversRandy
Randy, would a bad plug also cause the motor to quit when it is too rich. That happened to me yesterday on my Ares, the motor was too rich and I did a shallow wingover and when I pulled out, the motor quit. we switched plugs and all was well after that
Hi DavidMorgan fuels are made by weight instead of volume, so I would use the 12 ounces in it. What engine, or engines are you wanting to use this in?Use the 14 ounce for the Fox 35A good plug for most all of them is the Glo Devil 300 , T Bolt RC long, many use the SIG RC long, Enya #3Randy
I have some other Morgan fuels, I will have to do a boil down on them.My point was, you can mix by weight, but end up with the proper % by volume, if you correct for density.Onlnie somewhere I did the calculations for mixing 5 gallons of fuel by weight, but end up with a given % by volume.
Hi Randy,I see the fox rc long on the brodak website as being a 2 volt plug. Is this recomended for the fox .35? Do I need a 2 volt battery to use this plug? What about the 24k gold version for the fox 35? And the miracle plug for the fox 35? Thanks for helping a beginner with the fox .35! -Danny
Hi Randy,How do you safely do the "boil down" test to check for oil content in unknown fuel? Thanks!Paul Gibeault
Hi folksI am returning to the hobby after many a year, and I could use some help with glow plugs. Simply put, I can't remember what plug goes with a given engine.Here are the engines that I'm trying to get going again. They are late 50s, early 60s engines:Fox 15 and 35Torpedo 23 and 35OK Cub 29McCoy 09Enya 19 (Korean War vintage)Fuji 098I'm using a LHS 15% fuel (one gal) to which I've added 4oz of castor oil. Does that sound OK?Many thanks in advance.Andy
I'm using a LHS 15% fuel (one gal) to which I've added 4oz of castor oil. Does that sound OK?
Short reach glowplugs for .15 and smaller, Long reach for bigger than .15. All of those will be happiest with a good hot glowplug.
I've used this calculator many times .... my RedHead35's have been happy at 28% oilhttp://www.nitrorc.com/default2.asp?Introduction=http://www.nitrorc.com/fuelws/oilonly.asp
I have a fuel tank question...mostly because I'm still back in the Perfect metal wedge days and am amazed at all the types on the market today.What is best for sport/stunt control line flying?Andy
I am setting up with plastic tanks, plumbed with a clunk and a fixed uniflow vent on exhaust pressure. I will have a fueling disadvantage since I need to have the airplane up on the wingtip to fuel through the feed line. These are flite streaks so no big deal on the position, but I would plumb a separate vent on anything bigger.I gave up on metal tanks (other than bee tanks) for 1/2a when I started flying again a couple years ago. I use bladder, either pressure or non-pressure, depending on the engine setup.Phil
In a 2-line fuel tank, the feed is typically a "clunk" arrangement. The vent line is typically connected to the exhaust for pressure. The feed line is disconnected to fill the tank then reconnected. In a "uniflow" system the pickup and the vent are supposed to be under the same column of fuel so as fuel pressure remains constant for the entire run. A fixed vent is rigid. The uniflow vent could also be on a clunk of its own. In my case I have a standard two line clunk tank mounted sideways.http://www.fraserker.com/heli/uniflow/how_uniflow_works.htmhttp://www.flyrc.com/optimize-your-fuel-system-for-best-performance/Bladder is a flexible fuel tank made out of some type of fuel resistant material like latex. I think it was made popular with combat since it prevents air from being in the system and allows for reliable engine runs as a result.Non-pressure bladders would be latex party balloons, a common 9 inch balloon can be set up so it can hold from about 1 oz to over 2 oz. The air is removed using a fuel syringe and then the measured amount of fuel is put in. It functions via suction. The idea is to always have a relaxed balloon.http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php/topic,38539.0.htmlPressure bladder is a latex tube that is expanded forcefully with fuel.http://www.coxengineforum.com/t3317-pressure-bladder-how-to-videos-parts-one-and-two?highlight=pressure+bladderhttp://texastimers.com/accessories/pressure_bladders.htmI hope this helps some.Phil
PhilThanks much for taking the time to help me with this...I have to admit it will take a bit to absorb that info. I guess I'm stuck on the old Perfect metal tank idea with its three tubes...not too sure this old dog is ready for new tricks!!Andy
If it is a good tank without leaks those can work pretty well. The key is that they need to have no leaks. I have an old perfect tank in my super ringmaster, and after getting it cleaned out inside performs quite nicely with the Fox 35 on it.Phil
I filled the tank with denatured alcohol... I had to use some wire to poke through the gunk to do this, then threw the tank in a jar full of denatured alcohol. A week or so later I forcefully flushed the loose debris out with both air and more denatured alcohol using a large fuel syringe. I then pressure tested using the fuel syringe in a sink of water. Phil
That 4oz of castor you added, would have been for a quart. You'd need to add 18oz to a gallon... based on a target of 28%oil, and starting at 17%oil.Use this calculator ....http://www.nitrorc.com/default2.asp?Introduction=http://www.nitrorc.com/fuelws/oilonly.asp
Perfect!The link says that the additional oil is added to the existing gallon...I may have also read where the 18oz of oil would be added after 18oz of fuel was removed. Did I misunderstand?Thanks much for the link.Andy
No you have it, remove the fuel and add the extra oil, then shake well, save the fuel in a qt jar, and you will be OK adding15 ounces of oil, you won;'t need 18 ounces. This will cut your nitro percentage, so use a step higher nitro, ie.. if you want 10% start with 15%, if you want 5% start with 10%.. remember the nitro is also lower , because most of these type fuels are measured by weight and NOT volume.Randy
Another question...the last info suggests that I use a fuel with a little more nitro. I'm using Omega 15% and it doesn't seem that they make a 20% mix (25% is the next fuel offered).Is there a better fuel for these old engines, one that will be easier to adjust the lubrication level with?Andy
Yes call Sig and buy their 25% all castor, then use Klotz synthetic to boost it, you will only need about 4 to 5 ounces


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It was all about pass and run — not about popularity, polarization, positive force and personality, faith, hope and charity, and mile-high regard.
Everybody in the world knows Timmy can run. He produced that remarkable run to the postseason for the Broncos last season.
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Paradoxically, Tebow's final pass in Denver resulted in an 80-yard touchdown that won an overtime playoff game for the Broncos against the Steelers. After a contract snafu that held up the deal for hours Wednesday, Tebow was banished to the Jets, where he will start all over, but not start.
When Peyton Manning decided to bring his incredible talent to the Broncos, inevitably, it was one more Tebow Time — time to leave. Parting is such sweet sorrow, as Shakespeare wrote, and best for Tim and the Broncos, best for the evenly divided Tebow believers and the Tebow disbelievers.
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If, after Tebow had taken over at quarterback in the second half of the Chargers game, the Broncos had wallowed in mediocrity the rest of the season and finished with a 4-12 record (again), Manning wouldn't have cared to come to this organization. If Tebow hadn't taken over, the Broncos might have ended up with a 2-14 record and been in position to draft Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III. Funny how things work out.
Tim is special. Someday Tebow will prove himself as an exceptional NFL quarterback — runner and passer — but that just won't happen with the Broncos. Someday, as I've written, Tebow, with his platform, will be much more than a football player. He could be a preacher, politician, philanthropist or philosopher.
He has remained quiet publicly the past two weeks, but someone very close to him told me that Tebow was "all right, and everything will work out the way it's supposed to."
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He is ubiquitous, given the Tebowing, the multitudes who have followed him and been thrilled by him, the Jack Armstrong All-American boy qualities and his appearances at Hollywood awards shows, Walmarts for signings of his best-selling autobiography and Disney World with Make-A-Wish teenagers.
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Why are the Broncos getting rid of Tebow? Because they signed Peyton Manning, and he's the only (available) quarterback that could have displaced Tebow, and Elway et al. feel they can win the Super Bowl soon with Manning, probably not with Tebow.
Why did they not keep Tebow as the backup now and the starter in the future? Because it wouldn't have worked. Tebow wouldn't get the necessary work in practices or games to help his development as a passer. Tebow's contract runs out before Manning's, so he would have left, anyway.
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Foster, whose 10 rushing touchdowns lead the NFL, met every challenge before him Sunday: He rushed for 102 yards on a defense that ranked fourth against the run (88 yards per game); he scored the game's only touchdown on a play that showcased his athleticism; and he held onto the ball against a unit notorious for forcing turnovers, as he ended Week 10 without a fumble to his name this season.
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Last week at the Supreme Court of the United States was certainly a huge one, especially given the decision in Citizens United. But one of the things we SCOTUSbloggers love about the Court is that every week brings its own new, interesting developments.
Take Monday's short-as-can-be decision in Briscoe v. Virginia. Now, I and others on this blog have discussed the case from any number of angles (see here, for example). But for those of you watching and reading out there, Monday's decision may have slipped right by you "" that is how unexpected it was to some of us, in the timing at least. Why? Well, because the case was only argued two weeks ago, as discussed here. Usually, it takes the Court a while to reach agreement about the proper outcome of a case, then draft an opinion. As I discussed last week when explaining why we waited for quite some time for the Citizens United decision, these decisions are extremely important and far-reaching. But in Briscoe, the Court decided the case quickly and definitively in what Richard Friedman, one of the attorneys in the case, has called a G . . . . VR.
Remember the GVR? I explained it back in my first discussion of Briscoe, here. "GVR" stands for "granted, vacated, and remanded," which is what many Court watchers thought would happen with Briscoe after the decision in Melendez-Diaz (a very, very similar case out of Massachusetts) came down last June. Instead, however, the Court granted cert. in Briscoe only four days after the decision in Melendez-Diaz and agreed to hear the case (hence, the "G"). On Monday, however, after the parties had briefed and argued the case, the Court VR'ed in a one-sentence opinion. Although we do not know exactly why the Court granted cert, then vacated and remanded several months later, perhaps it realized that expending more resources to decide the case and write the opinion(s) was unwise and unnecessary, especially when it appears that the Court was unwilling to overrule its decision in Melendez-Diaz.
Can the Supreme Court change its mind? Sure. With either outcome in this case, it virtually had to do so. By G . . . . VRing, the Court seems to have changed its mind about granting cert. in Briscoe. But had it decided the case and overruled Melendez-Diaz, it also would have changed its mind about a legal standard. Because of the importance of the rule of law and stare decisis (which engender consistency, fairness, and predictability in the law), the Court may have been reluctant to change its mind so dramatically in such a short period of time (less than a year).
But, you might say, the Court has changed! Justice Souter retired, and Justice Sotomayor joined the Court! Yes, the composition of the Court has changed, but the Court itself is an institution, greater than the sum of its parts. In other words, when we are talking about the Supreme Court, we call it that regardless of who is sitting on the Court at any given moment. It is important to the rule of law for the Court to be viewed as seamless and enduring, even when members of the Court rotate in and out.
One more note about the Briscoe decision: The opinion was per curiam. "Per curiam" means that no Justice is identified as the author of the opinion. Rather, the opinion is just "by the Court." See the glossary here for more explanation.
On to the other decision of the week, this one in Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York. In this case, the City of New York tried to use federal racketeering laws (RICO, for those in the know) to go after cigarette retailers who were operating online but out of state. These retailers were selling cigarettes to New York residents, but they could charge much lower prices because they did not have to collect state and city taxes "" the burden of paying the taxes fell on the purchaser, not the vendor. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the City's suit to recover lost tax revenues to go forward against the vendors.
But the Supreme Court reversed, saying that RICO did not apply, in part because the vendors were under no legal obligation to collect taxes. The City had to find a way to collect the taxes from those obligated to pay "" the cigarette purchasers.
Two aspects of the Hemi case are important to note here. First, the opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts (the "opinion of the Court in part") is what we call a plurality. A plurality opinion is issued when a majority of the Justices do not agree on both the outcome and the reasoning of a case. In other words, while a majority of the Justices might agree on the outcome of the case, they do not agree on the legal means to the end. Therefore, some members of the majority will join the plurality opinion as to the outcome, but write a separate concurrence to explain how they (separately) reached that result "" which is what happened in Hemi. Chief Justice Roberts wrote an opinion, and four Justices agreed with him on the outcome. Only three, however, agreed with his analysis. Justice Ginsburg did not agree with a part of his analysis related to causation, and she therefore did not "join" that part of the opinion. Therefore, the Court was split 4-1-3, meaning that no one opinion commanded a majority.
By the way, as Brian Goldman noted here, pluralities are fairly common. However, quite uncommon about the Hemi plurality was that the Court did not tell us which parts of the opinion commanded a majority and which parts were only joined by a plurality. Justice Ginsburg signaled to us in her concurrence which parts she joined and which she did not, but the Court usually includes this information at the beginning of an opinion. We do not know why the Court chose not to do so here.
The reason why it is important to know what portions commanded a majority is that those portions will become precedential authority, requiring lower courts to follow the rule established or explained in the case. On the other hand, there are complex rules (outside of the scope of this more general discussion) for figuring out the precedential weight of a plurality opinion.
Another interesting point of note is that Justice Sotomayor did not participate in any aspect of deciding this case because while she was still on the Second Circuit she was a member of the three-judge panel that decided this case. According to Supreme Court procedure and protocol, she cannot properly decide the case again as a member of the Supreme Court. This type of situation often arises when a Justice is new to the Court. Because many of them were judges on the federal courts of appeals before their appointments to the Supreme Court, many of the cases they decided will eventually find their way to the highest Court in the land. After a year or two, these cases peter out, because the rules for timely filing of appeals do not allow the cases to go on.
In my next post, probably up on Friday, I will discuss some of the issues raised by Kevin's interview with Barry Friedman (see here and here). Because Professor Friedman's book advances some interesting theories and commentary on the role of the Court in society (as well as the role of society in influencing the Court), give that interview a good read. It is fascinating stuff!


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This is like David Lynch crossed with The Sandlot.
August 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm
I honestly don't know where to begin! The attention to detail; how the analogy of today's management / employee relationship was captured in its purest form; the struggles of the working man in knowing they should never look up! Bravo, Jim, for harnessing this complex subject and packing it all into a 1 minute and 12 second video.
August 18, 2010 at 5:01 pm
@ BigDaddyH ….. What?He made it just for laughs i'm pretty sure.Why does everything have to mean anything?It's just funny.Nothing complex!!!
July 18, 2014 at 1:14 pm
it was a joke
August 19, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Hahahaha, damn that kid is fucking great.
September 4, 2010 at 1:46 am
IT'S BIRD SHIT! That was my favorite part.
And why should the working man never look up? Because they're boss is going to shit on them? That doesn't make any sense. Just enjoy this for what it is…a little kid screaming, "holy shit!", and doing a damn fine job at it too, lol!
October 1, 2010 at 11:57 am
What more can one say but… 'holy shit'…?
October 8, 2010 at 11:02 pm
December 23, 2010 at 11:45 pm
They must love that kid enough to let him say shit really loud like that. XD
April 17, 2011 at 12:08 am
That was funny
July 7, 2011 at 2:03 am
HOLY SHIT!!! Its bird shit! LOL
September 19, 2011 at 7:46 am
January 28, 2012 at 8:10 am
There are no birds around therefore shit must have fallen from heaven.
July 28, 2012 at 9:59 pm
bird shit indeed
February 1, 2013 at 9:27 pm
Lol HOLY SHIT!
May 4, 2013 at 9:09 am
This is pretty much my favorite of your old films.
October 1, 2013 at 8:10 pm
my new favorite video
May 3, 2014 at 3:26 am
This is the most retarded movie James ever made before MUNKY CHEEZ
July 9, 2014 at 10:29 am
dam bird shit
February 4, 2015 at 10:17 pm
We need the return of holy shit !!!
August 22, 2015 at 10:35 am
The outtakes are funny
February 6, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Upload "Droppings!"
August 21, 2016 at 5:48 pm
I wonder what has become of the kid.
This video is 20 years old so he must be a grown man by now.
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Stosur bows out of Wimbledon warm-up
Samantha Stosur's Wimbledon preparation was cut short as she fell to Czech Lucie Safarova in the second round at Eastbourne on Wednesday.
Stosur failed to build on an impressive opening display against Russian eighth seed Nadia Petrova, as Safarova won 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 in warm conditions at the final Wimbledon lead-in tournament.
Australian world No.14 Stosur will now head into next week's grass-court grand slam having played only two warm-up matches on her least-favoured surface.
The 29-year-old is hoping to improve on a modest record at Wimbledon, where she has never been past the third round.
But her prospects took a significant hit on Wednesday as left-hander Safarova continued a dominant record over the Australian, with her sixth win from eight meetings.
Stosur was in control for most of the first set, and had a set point when serving for the match at 5-3 up.
However Safarova's ball striking improved dramatically and the world No.28 rallied to take the set in the tiebreaker.
The second set was also evenly-fought, with both players battling to hold serve early, before Safarova clinched the crucial break up 4-3.
Stosur felt missing a chance to serve out the first set was crucial but was satisfied with her performance as a pre-Wimbledon hit-out.
"Even though I lost today I still feel like I did a lot of things well," she said.
"There's still a few days before Wimbledon that I can still try and do a couple of things, get them a little bit better.
"I guess feeling as good as you can after losing second round but, on the whole, I feel like I'm striking the ball well and moving well which is important going to into next week."
Safarova, 26, will face either American Jamie Hampton or Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh in the quarter-finals.
Bernard Tomic meets Frenchman Julien Benneteau in the second round later on Wednesday while Marinko Matosevic lost his opening-round match in straight sets to Czech veteran Radek Stepanek.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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Québec City Travel Guide
Spread over the promontory Cap Diamant and the banks of the St Lawrence River, QUÉBEC CITY (sometimes referred to just as "Québec") is one of Canada's most beautifully located cities, and certainly its most historic one. Vieux-Québec, surrounded by solid fortifications, is the only walled city in North America, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Throughout the old city winding cobbled streets are flanked by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stone houses and churches, graceful parks and squares, and countless monuments. Although some districts have been painstakingly restored to give tourists as seductive an introduction to Québec as possible, this is nevertheless an authentically and profoundly French-Canadian city. Over ninety percent of its 750,000 population are francophone, and it is often difficult to remember which continent you are in as you tuck in to a croissant and a steaming bowl of café au lait in a Parisian-style café. Moreover, despite the fact that the city's symbol is a hotel, the Château Frontenac, the government remains the main employer.
None of Québec City's highlights are far from the St Lawrence River, with the main attractions being evenly distributed between the upper and lower portions of what is known as Vieux-Québec (Old Québec). Within the quarter's walls reminders of the days when the city was the bastion of the Catholic Church in Canada are discernible at almost every corner. The Church can claim much of the credit for the creation and preservation of its finest buildings, from the quaint Église Notre-Dame-des-Victoires to the Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec and the vast Séminaire.
On the Cap Diamant, Haute-Ville (Upper Town) continues along the river from the old city walls and from here you should wander at least to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, home to the finest art collection in the province. The museum is set in the expansive battlefield of the Plaines d'Abraham, a national historic park that unfurls west of the massive and magnificent Citadelle, an austere defensive structure that reveals the military pedigree of a city dubbed by Churchill the "Gibraltar of North America". At the foot of the Château Frontenac, Terrasse Dufferin is also worth a stroll to watch street entertainers and for the arresting views over the river, but it gets crowded in the evening. It also overlooks the second part of the Vieux-Québec, Basse-Ville (Lower Town), connected to Haute-Ville by funicular and several winding streets and stairs; if you're only in Québec City for a short while, head here straight from the Place d'Armes and then return to the Upper Town for the remainder of the sights. One of the main pleasures of the area, besides the wonderful old houses and small museums, is the Musée de la Civilisation, which expertly presents all aspects of French-Canadian society.
Brief history
For centuries the clifftop site of what is now Québec City was occupied by the Iroquois village of Stadacona, and although Jacques Cartier visited in the sixteenth century, permanent European settlement did not begin until 1608, when Samuel de Champlain established a fur-trading post here. To protect what was rapidly developing into a major inland trade gateway, the settlement shifted to the clifftop in 1620 when Fort St-Louis was built on the present-day site of the Château Frontenac. Québec's steady expansion was noted in London, and in 1629 Champlain was starved out of the fort by the British, an occupation that lasted three years.
Catholicism and commercial might
Missionaries began arriving in 1615, and by the time Bishop Laval arrived in 1659 Québec City and the surrounding province were in the grip of Catholicism. Yet in the city's earliest days the merchants of the fur trade wielded the most power and frequently came into conflict with the priests, who wanted a share in the profits in order to spread their message among the aboriginal peoples. Louis XIV resolved the wrangles, after being advised to take more interest in his kingdom's mercantile projects. By 1663 the entire French colony, which stretched from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico, was known as New France and had become a royal province, administered by a council appointed directly by the Crown and answerable to the king's council in France. Before the century ended, the long-brewing European struggles between Britain and France spilled over into the colony. It was at this time that the Comte de Frontenac, known as the "fighting governor", replaced Champlain's Fort St-Louis with the sturdier Château St-Louis, and began work on the now-famous fortifications that ring Vieux-Québec.
British takeover
In 1759, during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War), the most significant battle in Canada's history took place here, between the British under General James Wolfe and the French commander general Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm. The city had already been under siege from the opposite shore for three months when Wolfe and his four thousand troops scaled the cliff of Cap Diamant and engaged the hastily organized and ill-prepared French. The twenty-minute battle on the Plains of Abraham left both leaders mortally wounded and the city of Québec in the hands of the British, a state of affairs ultimately confirmed by the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
In 1775 – the year after the Québec Act, which allowed French-Canadians to retain their Catholic religion, language and culture – the town was attacked again, this time by the Americans, who had already captured Montréal. The British won the battle, and for the next century the city quietly earned its livelihood as the centre of a timber-trade and shipbuilding industry. Yet by the time it was declared the provincial capital of Lower Canada in 1840 the accessible supplies of timber had run out. The final blow came with the appearance of steamships that could travel as far as Montréal (earlier sailing ships had found it difficult to proceed beyond Québec City). Ceasing to be a busy seaport, the city declined into a centre of small industry and local government, its way of life still largely determined by the Catholic Church.
The rise of Québécois nationalism
With the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s and the rise of Québec nationalism, Québec City became a symbol of the glory of the French heritage: the motto Je me souviens ("I remember"), for instance, placed above the doors of its parliament buildings, was transferred to the licence plates of Québec cars, to sweep the message across Canada. Though the city played little active part in the changes, it has grown with the upsurge in the francophone economy, developing a suburbia of shopping malls and convention centres as slick as any in the country.
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AR15/M16 MAG Orlite 30 Round
sarco has a few IDF surplus orlite 30 round mags for $19 each.
there supposed to be the steel reinforced one on the feed lips so they may be OK.
it seems like i did shoot a few of them and they did OK--
it is the thermold 30s without the steel reinforced lips that caused the problems.
i figure those steel mags MAKO sells are probably better--however they may or may not be in stock --these are for the moment anyway.
if your hurting for a 30rd ar mag--it might not hurt to give a couple of these a try--:nanabang:


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Centre for Energy Research
The Centre for Energy Research (EK) was established in January 2012 on the basis of two former independent institutions, the Institute of Isotopes (IKI) and the KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute (AEKI). The Centre is part of the research network of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The mission of the Centre for Energy Research is to perform research and development in the field of nuclear science and technology for facilitating the adoption and the safe use of nuclear technology in Hungary, to participate in international research efforts aiming at the establishing a new generation of nuclear power plants and closing the fuel cycle, to study the interaction of radiation (including neutrons, gamma-rays and electrons) with matter, and to do isotope and nuclear chemistry, chemical analysis by nuclear methods, radiography, radiation chemistry, radiation protection and nuclear security, surface chemistry and renewable energy research. The Centre and its Institutes focus their research efforts on the following topics:
- basic and applied research in the fields of reactor physics, fuel rods, thermohydraulics, nuclear fusion, nuclear reactions and nuclear data, health physics, real time expert systems, reactor core simulations, safety assessments of nuclear power plants, safety aspects of transportation and storage of nuclear materials, analysis of reactor failures, radiation damage, mechanics, reactor core diagnostics and leak detection, as defined in the Law on the application of nuclear energy;
- nuclear safeguards, method development and application of destructive and non-destructive characterization techniques;
- application and development of nuclear analytical techniques;
- study the chemical effects of ionizing radiation, such as polimerization, degradation, waste removal, dosimetry;
- basic research in the fields of surface chemistry and catalysis by applying Mössbauer and XPS spectroscopy, tracers and radiation-modified catalysts;
- technical support activity for the Hungarian Authorities in the fields of nuclear safeguards, radiation safety, registration and transport of nuclear materials, characterization of confiscated or unknown nuclear materials;
- technical and administrative operation of the Budapest Research Reactor and its cold source, promoting the utilization of the reactor and the related intruments in Hungary and abroad, also as a gestor of the Budapest Neutron Center consortium, basic and applied research in neutron radiography, neutron physics, prompt and instrumental activation analysis, and in the field of biology-related applications;
- the arrangement of emergency response and environmental monitoring at the KFKI Campus, contribution to the domestic nuclear emergency relief service.
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Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
MVM Paks Power Plant
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International Atomic Energy Agency


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Taxman: I was thinking of this Beatles' song, recently, after council received the pre-budget report from the treasurer at last Monday's council meeting. It's dated, the song that is, but still eerily appropriate (I will have to learn to play it on my ukulele).
Last election, all of us who got elected ran on a platform of keeping costs and taxes low. Okay, that's a fairly blithe promise; few candidates run on a platform of raising taxes and expenses, and fewer actually ever win a seat in any level of government.
It doesn't matter if everyone knows taxes will go up after the election, or if there are seriously pressing needs to raise taxes. You don't run on that platform. Unless, of course, it's to tax the rich – that seems a rather popular theme these days. Except, of course, among the rich. The 99% of us kind of like the idea… but I digress
This council has consistently attempted to cut costs, rein in spending and keep taxes low. That's never easy, and often it's very challenging, but we've managed to do so fairly well. In fact, the most recent auditor's report (an independent audit) showed we have done it very well, in the past three budgets. The deputy mayor has cracked the whip and staff have pulled the oars. So far, the local ship of state has rowed in unison, avoiding the shoals of debt and taxation.
But it's difficult to maintain a flat tax line. The world doesn't work that way. Economies are always on the move.
Prices go up, costs go up, fee go up, old things need maintenance or replacement, new things need to be bought, collective agreements have built-in increases. Keeping a zero-percent increase is like the Red Queen's race in Alice in Wonderland: you run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place:
Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
We don't have the money or the tax base to run twice as fast. But at some point, we have to have some increases if nothing more than to play catch-up with out expenses.


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Monday, January 18, 2010
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part one
Aaron presents two views of preservation. In doing so, he says that both sides believe in preservation of Scripture, and that neither knows what the Bible teaches about the how and the what of preservation. He says that both sides in the end are left with educated guesses about the how and the what. He seems to prefer the second sort of educated guess, which happens to be textual criticism, guesses educated by forensic science in that case. I don't believe that the second view is preservation of Scripture. It isn't how the Bible presents it, which I will talk about later. And I don't think that the first view is a guess at all, any more than we're guessing when we say that we have sixty-six books of the Bible.
Aaron goes through several preservation texts, which is the right thing to do, to see what the Bible says about its own preservation. He does miss a few good ones. But he concludes in so many words from looking at several references that speak of preservation that God has indeed preserved every one of His Words for people to use. That is a lofty conclusion for many evangelicals and fundamentalists. Many wouldn't want to be caught saying that. For instance, Daniel Wallace doesn't believe that Scripture says what Blumer concludes in his article.
The article by Aaron, however, has two major problems. One is that it provides no historical context, and two, the Bible really does say how and what. I'll explain both.
The first one, not giving historical context, is what provides the most trouble. The right position is the biblical position, but then it is also the historic position. There is no doubt that what Aaron calls the discrete view is the historic position. You won't find the other position, what he calls dispersed preservation, until you get to the 19th century. I have long believed that we first go to the Bible to get our doctrine and then we check on history to find out what men believed. If a new position comes on the scene, it should overturn the already established position with some very convincing exegesis of the Bible on the doctrine. We don't have that with the dispersed view. What originated the "dispersed view" was post-enlightenment rationalism in the form of the "science" of textual criticism. Textual criticism says to look to the external evidence to find out where it leads you, not at all affected by theological presuppositions. That has not been the position of the church. When I have presented the historical doctrine of the church, I have never had anyone deny it was the historic position. When I have argued with some of the most notable men in the field of the text of Scripture, they do not deny that converted men have taken the position that Aaron calls the discrete view.
From what I read, and I have read a lot about this, a vast majority of evangelicals and fundamentalists do not know the history of the doctrine of preservation of Scripture. True believers have always believed the view that I also take. It is the one that Scripture teaches. I think Aaron is referring to that view as discrete preservation. The fact that he gives it his own name seems to surely indicate that he has not interacted with the history of the doctrine. With the emphasis that Kevin Bauder and Central puts on history and scholarship, one would think that the students there would learn the historic view on preservation. I haven't read anywhere that would lead me to believe that they have. What I do read, that is written by them and their comrades, is that the history of preservation begins in the late 19th century. That's where we start in their history. That, of course, is also the time that evolution evolved, theological liberalism began to bloom, and what Bauder calls "proto-fundamentalism" got started.
Much of God's Word in Our Hands and God's Word Preserved (latter by Michael Sproul), two recent "dispersed position" presentations, quote almost entirely historic fundamentalists to defend their position as historic. I'm afraid that these men really do believe that they have presented the historic position on preservation when they quote mainly fundamentalists (what Sproul calls "our fundamentalist fathers," I guess to add authority to their words). Any real historian, like Richard Muller, I think, would be amused or even chuckle at the "history" to which these men refer (again I recommend for historic purposes, Muller's second volume in his Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, titled: Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology). James White in his King James Version Debate doesn't even attempt to present the historic doctrine of preservation. Many of these men treat the doctrine of preservation as if it began with the textual critics and found its apex in Bruce Metzger of mid 20th century Princeton.
If anyone is going to say that there are two views, he ought to tell us where those two views came from. He should be required to do that. Usually someone, any scholar, any preacher, must do that. The first view, which Aaron doesn't represent correctly (I'll show how later), comes from Scripture and has evidence in the history of Christian doctrine. The second view does not have a historic basis. It started in the 19th century, which, by the way, was also the time that a lot of false theological beliefs were concocted. We should expect that the old position would be overturned by excellent, in-depth exegesis. It wasn't. We still do not get exegesis as a basis for the critical text or eclectic text position. That's why there isn't a major foundational difference between what we hear from James White and Bart Ehrman in the debate. On most of their fundamental points, they agree. Neither of them rely on scriptural presuppositions to come to their views on preservation.
When I ask for a scriptural presentation for the preservation position of those taking this "dispersed preservation" view, they don't have one. They only have criticism of the "discrete preservation." And it takes on a scorched earth type of argumentation. They usually try almost every avenue possible to discredit the scriptural and historic position. They did not and do not start with the Bible to come to their own view.
So Aaron presents two views. My problem is that the second one shouldn't be considered legitimate. It didn't start with a doctrine of preservation. Aaron Blumer deals with passages of scripture, but the dispersed preservation position itself started with a denunciation of the doctrine of preservation with the idea of overturning the historical position to make room for textual criticism. There is where I find it akin to saying there are two views on the Lord's Table: transubstantiation and symbolism. There aren't two views. We shouldn't exalt transubstantiation by giving it the status of a legitimate position. I say the same about the second position, the "dispersed preservation" view. Roman Catholic dogma has been influenced through the centuries by various external sources of rationalism and mysticism. A return to biblical doctrine for many in Europe in the 16th century was mockingly called fideism by Roman Catholic authority. Romanism considered theirs a groundless faith without the aid of reason that they had embraced. Doctrines like transubstantiation are not fideistic.
Is what I write above true? Yes, it is. Why isn't there more interaction about this? Not many men will even talk about it. The few that do will attempt to read textual criticism into statements made by Francis Turretin or extrapolate the science of textual criticism into the work of Erasmus. This is not telling the story. It is more scrambling to attempt to explain why they don't have a history. One would think that men who have truth on their side would be glad to discuss this. They won't. They certainly do not want to hear that they have a view read into the historic confessions to make room for post-enlightenment rationalism. What I have found is that they simply mock the historical view. And that is acceptable as discussion. They say it is just a silly translation issue for which they have no time. Certain pressures come upon evangelicals and fundamentalists that tie them to an eclectic or critical text and modern versions. And those who believe the biblical and historical position today are marginalized and dismissed in some fashion like believers in a Catholic inquisition.
I will finish this very soon. In the next post I will talk about the problems he has in representing the discrete position. By misrepresenting this view, a strawman is erected. Again, stay tuned.
28 comments:
- Kent Brandenburg said...
Concerning Muller's work, here are some of the reviews of the four volume set of which the second is on Scripture.
Richard Muller's long-awaited volumes represent a work of vast historical scope, profound engagement with the primary and secondary sources, and careful application of sound historical method. By setting seventeenth-century Reformed theology against the background of classical, patristic, medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation intellectual culture, Muller paints a picture of seventeenth-century Reformed theology that belies the old clichés through its nuance, learning, and sophistication. Nobody engaged in this area can afford to ignore his arguments or his conclusions; those who wish to dissent from his central theses have been set a daunting task, and those who find themselves in agreement have been set a standard for their own research.
—Carl R. Trueman, Westminster Theological Seminary
A work of monumental significance…Muller has done for post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics what no one else has done with such detail since the beginning of the eighteenth century (and in its own way, what no one else has ever done)…Of course anyone working in the area of historical theology, intellectual history, or philosophy cannot afford to miss these volumes.
—Scott F. Sanborn, Kerux
And many more. He shouldn't be ignored. No one has done this work. You won't read it elsewhere. However, what you will read will only agree with what Muller reports.
So, the views presented at SI are more in accordance with the Graf-Wellhausen theory? This, of course, says that Moses could not have written the Pentateuch - they do not know who wrote it, nor do they offer any possible alternative, but they know it could not have been Moses. Instead, they offer the theory that four unknown men and two obscure redactors compiled the book, much like how the Koran was compiled (Mohammedans like to think that Mohammed wrote the whole of it, but he did not write one word - he could not - he was illiterate).
- Don Johnson said...
But Kent, in this article you don't offer any historical context either. You simply say, 'Aaron [et al] is ignoring history.' But you offer no evidence that your assertion is correct. Is some historical survey to be expected in future articles?
Simply saying so doesn't make it so.
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
- Kent Brandenburg said...
SI would not believe the Graf-Wellhausen theory. Fundamentalists don't believe that. Some may be leaning that way, but I don't know of anyone that has gone that way. You may think, and I could agree with you, that they treat the preservation issue like that, however.
I knew I wasn't writing any history in the article. I'm only criticizing his article. I assumed people could go over to my sidebar and read many articles on history that I have written. You make a true point---I did not write a history in my critique. I have written many of those, however, and I don't want to be too redundant here at WIT. I also point people to Muller, because I'm assuming people won't believe me, even though I'm saying exactly what Muller is saying. He's just saying it from some place fundamentalists would give credit.
In my second article, I'll be dealing with the how and what part of the criticism. I'll write it soon because it's high interest to me.
- Kent Brandenburg said...
When I say "someplace fundamentalists would give credit," I mean a parachurch organization, and a place of scholarship. He's also published by big-time, credible publishers in their opinion. My saying things as a pastor of a church do not hold much for fundamentalists. There are other reasons too, but everyone would get the picture. There is a system of accreditation that often is disconnected from the truth.
- Damien said...
If we were to take your 'historic' approach to this, and substitute individual textual variants in place of the doctrine of preservation, would it still work? In other words, what has the church historically believed about the Comma Johanneum, and how do we make a determination to accept or reject it?
- Kent Brandenburg said...
Hello. First, why historc in quote marks? I'd be happy to be shown otherwise. You'll have to stomp all over Muller (and me).
I think I'll answer your questions in upcoming post(s). Question for you though. Do you think that men who continued believing the historic position in the 16th and 17th centuries also knew there were textual variants in hand copies? In anticipation of your answer, since it is somewhat rhetorical, why did this not start becoming a stumbling block to the historic view until the 19th century?
- Damien said...
first, I apologize for my being misleading - I didn't put historic in quotes to signify any sort of insulting tone or to imply I don't think your position is historic. I was actually trying to come up with a label for your approach to the subject and somehow was only left with the word historic, and left the quotes there. Sorry.
anywho. . .
1) Yes, obviously. 2) if it is true that the believing church held to a doctrine of perfect preservation, akin to the one you hold, from the close of the NT canon until the 19th century then it would be a simple matter of developing doctrine. I'm for catholicity, in fact, I'm more for it than I ever was, but I also believe that aspects of doctrine need to be held against the standard of the scriptures and Christ. Though there may be offshoots and consequences of the 19th century textual theories, conservatives who hold to those theories still have a bibliology that aligns itself with the fundamentalists, the Puritans, the Reformers, the early church, and the apostles. In subsets of that doctrine, including preservation, things are subject to be tweaked.
And why? Because if William Tyndale held to this view and Martin Luther held to this view and John Owen held to this view and Erasmas held to this view and Wycliffe and so on and so forth, all in different regions, and different tongues, then they couldn't all be right in regards to how it applies to the versions of the scriptures to which each had access. From the 19th century onward, there was a greater cultural and historical awareness of what Christians had in regards to the scriptures. To pick one, the KJV (or an edition of Erasmus' Greek NT), and claim it as the standard is not consistent with that data.
In my year or so of following the posts on this blog, I've seen Kent ask man after man for the historical basis of their view of preservation. I've never yet seen it answered. The same goes when he asks for their Scriptural basis.
I won't say much, but I will keep score. So far we have two replies from those who disagree. So far we are zero for two on the original claim: Where is the history for the modern view of perservation pre late 19th C?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but is this a de facto confession of the accuracy of Kent's argument?
"From the 19th century onward, there was a greater cultural and historical awareness of what Christians had in regards to the scriptures."
That reads to me like "no one from history agrees with us because they didn't know what we know now." Correct me if I'm wrong please.
- Aaron Blumer said...
Hi Kent. Appreciate your response to my article.
Amazon tells me a copy of your book is in the mail. Looking forward to a closer look.
As for the lacking history... it's true I didn't include any. Have to stop somewhere.
I'll be doing a more thorough response down the road, but for now I'll just point out that your post here doesn't explain how including historical context would change anything.
That is, my thesis was, in part, that "there are two views" today. Whatever may have existed yesterday doesn't altar what we have on the scene today.
But I understand that you are trying to set up a "source of the idea" argument and the history is supposed to establish that a dispersed view of pres. has a recent and tainted source.
That's fine. I can work with that.
- Reforming Baptist said...
Hey Kent,
I've probably asked this before, so forgive me for being either thickheaded or forgetful, but can you point me to some references to writers in church history who hold the perfect preservation view? Like, what books or articles or confessions of faith are there that make such a case. I want to know if that is really the historic position. You can answer me by email if it's better than posting it here..if you have time.
I don't wish to blow my own trumpet, but I have set forth fully the historical documentation on the perfect preservation view in this article:
The CT people have the eclectic views of apostate Enlightenment scholars and the Church of Rome to back them up. Interesting company to keep!
Logically speaking, perfect preservation is implied by verbal/plenary inspiration. The two beliefs are twin sisters. This was why I asked about the Graf-Wellhausen theory (or JEDP) with SI (As I have never been there, that was an unknown). However, this belief about the Pentateuch came contemporary to textual criticism (incidentally a poor word for Bible scholastics). To say that God did not preserve His Word negates the idea that He inspired it. If it is not perfectly preserved, how do we know that we have the true Word (and Words) of God? According to the rule of English law, one false statement negates the entire testimony - therefore, if one word of the Bible was lost, the whole of the perfect canon is made imperfect.
- Kent Brandenburg said...
What we read of men on preservation agrees with the perfect preservation position that I believe and teach. It makes sense to me, because that is also what I see in the Bible. I've found that they have also believed in inspiration, like to which Claymore is referring, and so they didn't allow human reasoning to affect their faith there either, despite other sorts of biblical criticism.
Damien, I'm talking about what men wrote on preservation, explaining what they believed. I'm not talking about our still photos of Tyndale, Erasmus, the KJV translators, etc. I'd rather not talk about that at the moment, because it muddies the water. I recognize your jump to what this means as to the English Bible we use.
Please look at P. S. Ferguson's article. It's good work. I have some more material at Jackhammer distinctly on history that I'll link here, but I've got to go teach.
- Damien said...
Kent actually didn't ask me for historical proof of my view of preservation. He asked me why I would accept a change in this doctrine if indeed his view is the historic one. I believe I gave an answer to that, provided the theory (that his view is the historic one) is correct. Whether that theory is or not I'm not really arguing. So, you asked, is this a concession? Perhaps. I don't come here with an agenda, I'd like to iron these things out. Personally I think the history is more complex than that, but again, if it is true that verbal plenary perfect preservation is the historic belief of the believing church, then I'm also ok with saying it was a view in need of tweaking, that the believing church, for the most part, has come to grips with, and pending a tarried Second Coming for a few hundred years, might one day be considered historic as well :)
You quoted me and provided commentary: "From the 19th century onward, there was a greater cultural and historical awareness of what Christians had in regards to the scriptures."
"That reads to me like "no one from history agrees with us because they didn't know what we know now." Correct me if I'm wrong please."
Sort of. But I wouldn't say "no one" just yet, either. But, if you're a dispensationalist, believe in the pre-trib rapture, hold to any particular hermeneutic model (Covenant theology, dispy, Christocentrism, etc.), etc. you might as well agree with that statement. We find things in seed form in history, but isn't it true that by now, in 2010, we have a more developed view of church discipline, creationism, eschatology, etc? I'm not trying to divert the issue, but I do wonder why we can allow these things to be so in other areas of theology but not this one.
Ok no problem. I will look at PS's work in due time. We've talked about this before. And I'm still a little unclear as to how this applies to the KJV, being that you've said that your view of preservation is carried along through history by a 'general accesibility', yet that 'general' became a 'very particular' thing in 1611, and I don't know what changed. That's still 1600 years removed from the close of the canon, and it's quite possible if that's the view you espouse, I'm no different. I guess for me, my 1611 moment hasn't happened yet. But I carried on too much. I just came back to say thanks for the Owen recommendation and here I am continuing this debate that we've been on before! So, I'll bow out (at least in THIS post!) and watch you answer more of these things in your next posts.
- Reforming Baptist said...
So, are there any specifics or just "what they believed agrees with me" ?
- Kent Brandenburg said...
Read P.S. Ferguson's article. It has a ton of the history. Have you read that?
Then at Jackhammer, there's this:
- Aaron Blumer said...
"Logically speaking, perfect preservation is implied by verbal/plenary inspiration. The two beliefs are twin sisters....To say that God did not preserve His Word negates the idea that He inspired it. If it is not perfectly preserved, how do we know that we have the true Word (and Words) of God? According to the rule of English law..."
"Logic" is claimed here, then abandoned. The reasoning here seems to be "Inspiration only exists when we know it exists." My response to that is a. where is inspiration defined this way in Scripture and b. since when is God's power to do something (and the reality of what He has done) dependent on whether we "know" or not?
The fool says in his heart "there is no God." What if everyone said the same? Would God cease to exist?
No, the miracle of inspiration exists 100% independently of anyone's knowledge of or belief in it. If there were no human beings on the earth at all, inspiration would remain a reality. It simply does not depend on our recognition of it in any way, shape or form.
- Unknown said...
Inspiration without preservation is irrelevant. I think that is what Claymore was trying to communicate (which btw, I agree with him on that. Claymore can correct me if I am wrong). I do agree with you about how things are so, with or without our knowledge or recognition of such things.
Aaron, your comment about the fool is completely moot because the Hebrew language demands that it be interpreted this way: the fool has carefully considered the evidence for the existence of God and willfully rejected it - Dr. Ferguson makes this clear in his book "God and the Atheist." If you read Jeff's comment above, you will find that it is by faith we know Scripture is truth, and Paul plainly tells us that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. Why should God spend 1700 years inspiring His Word only to have it lost over a period of 1900 years, or until two apostates and occultists (Bishop Westcott and Prof. Hort) compiled the Gnostic-mutilations that came from Clement of Alexandria? I find it was no accident that the bible (lowercase as it is not the true Bible) that Arius used to attack the Deity of Christ was the same which underlies the CT versions today. I believe that Orton Wiley also mentions this in his "Introduction to Christian Theology" - I cannot quote exactly what he said because my copy is in storage, along with the rest of my library. Dr. O. Talmadge Spence has also a few good books on the subject, as does Dr. Cloud. I recommend that you see what they have to say on the subject - if you do not believe in perfect preservation after reading them, I suspect you are in denial.
Reforming Baptist - "can you point me to some references to writers in church history who hold the perfect preservation view?"
In all fairness, one has to admit that Jesus did,
"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5:18)
In that light, it doesn't really matter what Calvin, councils, or anyone else in Romanoprotestant history said, does it?
- Reforming Baptist said...
Jesus' point doesn't deal with the "how" it deals with the "what" and the "how" is where the debate is.
I'm working on the Ferguson article and I'll read up on the Jackhammer article too. Thanks!
Reforming Baptist - The question you asked, and which I answered, was a "what" question. Before we can deal with the mechanics of preservation, we first have to agree that there has, indeed, been preservation. Your question appeared to me to be asking for confirmation from "authority" that preservation (as a "what") was held in church history.
An example of perfect preservation:
The Hebrew Scribes had to follow careful instructions in copying the Scriptures: the writing material could only be from the skins of clean animals. The ink must be black and prepared according to a specific recipe. The scribe must have a kosher copy of the book he was copying before him, and must sound out each word audibly as he writes it. If one page had an error, it must be torn out and a new page started from the beginning. If more than three pages needed revision, the document was condemned and a new copy must be started. I would say this demands perfect preservation.
Thank you for bringing up the issue of the Masoretes. This methodology didn't just exist in the 10th century AD - there's evidence that it extended back into the BC too - which means that they literally might well have preserved the mss. that Jesus Himself read and said were the very Word of God, from which one jot or tittle would not pass.
Another interesting thing - the Dead Sea Scrolls, which Critical Texters love to refer to in the textual debate, are themselves largely Masoretic in form. However, even the best one (an Isaiah scroll that is *almost* identical to the Bomberg Masoretic Isaiah underlying the KJV) has a few errors in it.
E.L. Sukenik originally proposed that the Dead Sea repositories were a type of genizah - a place where the Jews "retired" manuscripts that had been copied incorrectly per the methodology you described, or were otherwise found to have transcription or other errors.
More recently, scholars became enamoured with the DSS as a source for "correcting" the biblical text. I think they are incorrect to do so, since I think Sukenik's original thesis - while not as "interesting" as other theories - is correct. The DSS library is a repository of messed up mss. of all types that the Qumran community (who were probably not actually Essene, btw) rejected because they were corrupt.
Actually I think that the original MSS penned by (possibly) Elihu of the book of Job, (the first book to be written in the Bible) all the way through John's original autograph of the Apocalypse are preserved somewhere on the planet - God has kept them hidden because He knows men would be worshipping them today if we knew where to find them. Perhaps in the Millennial Reign of Christ, they will be uncovered.
- paidagogos said...
Several have asked about historical antecedents for a doctrine of preservation. Although allusions or snatches of reference may be found throughout church history, it was generally assumed and accepted until the advent of Higher and Lower Criticism. Thus, little was explicitly written because it was not an issue. Now that Fundamentalists, who are professed Bible-believers, are supporting the Lower Criticism, which is based on the same Rationalistic methodology as the rejected Higher Criticism, the doctrine of preservation needs to be expounded.
- CD-Host said...
Joshua --
I don't know if this is going to end up going through but I'll take your challenge. In my year or so of following the posts on this blog, I've seen Kent ask man after man for the historical basis of their view of preservation. I've never yet seen it answered.
First off this trace only applies to the Western Catholic church and the churches that emerged from it, the Eastern Catholic has an entirely different historical basis.
1) The second and third century church fathers believed there was a wide range of scriptures in use within the church. They broke them into 3 groups:
a) Those they considered of first century or earlier origin and "authentic" where "authentic" meant that it agreed with their positions.
b) Those they considered non authentic
c) Those they considered late but in line with orthodoxy
Many argued that only those in class (1) should be considered scripture
2) The fourth and fifth century church fathers systematized the scriptures and begin doing something very much akin to what modern textual critics do in trying to form a unified basis for scripture. Unifying these works and creating official version.
3) By the 12th century the official versions had become corrupted with earlier streams that had gotten embedded into the scriptures by way of the liturgy; the liturgy often representing earlier textual streams. They also began to re-examine many of the judgements made by the earlier church fathers in both choice of books and translation.
4) The church held that these earlier version were recoverable, and that some books that had slipped into official versions but never been officially endorsed should be removed (example the Prayer of Manasses).
5) The reformation occurs and the apocryphal books are removed, further Jerome's position on original languages gets official support again and the focus is on translation from Hebrew and Greek with less respect for traditional renderings.
6) These two major streams:
a) less respect for traditional renderings
b) an attempt to reconstruct from the "originals"
continues to this day. During the late 19th century an understanding that reconstructing the originals means reopening the original choices made by group the 2nd and 3rd century church fathers starts to be raised on the Christian fringe and to this day continues to become more mainstream.


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Topic: Tusken Canyon RPG
Okay, in this game, you can either be a pure blood Tusken, a human that's been adopted by Tuskens, or a Moisture Farmer. No fancy weapons though if you're a Tusken. You can only have a Gaffi Stick and a Slug Thrower rifle (which is optional) and you have to have a Bantha of the same Gender as your character.
If your a Moisture Farmer, you can have something a bit more fancy, just don't go overboard (Like no big rifles of funky guns.)
Character Sheet:
Bantha's Name (Tuskens only):
History (doesn't have to be too long):
Side Note: The Tuskens are Pre-Episode II, meaning the both Females and Males are treated equally and can't be told apart just by looking at them. Other than that, everything else is the same.
The only thing I ask is that everyone stays on topic. If you have any questions or want to talk about OOC things, either PM me or make a seperate thread for it please. Other than that, have fun.
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